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# The head of Henry IV, separated from his body when the Abbey of Saint-Denis was looted
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/raz-uzh-rech-zashla-o-poteriannykh-cherepakh-to-eshche-odni-aristokraticheskie-ostanki-ostalis-obezglavlennymi/
- Published: 2017-04-13T14:32:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:57:32.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Heritage, Paris, People

Since we are on the subject of lost skulls, another set of aristocratic remains was left without its head. Henry IV (1553-1610), whom I mentioned the other day ([https://theparnassian.com/schitaetsia-chto-vo-vremia-sozdaniia-kartiny-favoritka-genrikha-iv-byla-beremenna-pervym-ego-synom-kotorogo-nazovut-sezarom-v-chest-iuliia-tsezaria/](https://theparnassian.com/schitaetsia-chto-vo-vremia-sozdaniia-kartiny-favoritka-genrikha-iv-byla-beremenna-pervym-ego-synom-kotorogo-nazovut-sezarom-v-chest-iuliia-tsezaria/?ref=theparnassian.com)), was buried at Saint-Denis. The abbey was plundered during the French Revolution, and the bodies of the monarchs interred there were dragged from their vaults and heaped into a common grave. Henry IV, who had been at rest for 180 years, was not spared the outrage either: his head was severed from the body, and centuries later it is still passing from one pair of hands to another.